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Bug 1063671 (CVE-2014-1934)

Summary: CVE-2014-1934 python-eyed3: insecure temporary file creation
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bdpepple, i, jrusnack, mniranja
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sym link attact patch
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python-eyed3 spec file
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Modified sym link attack patch none

Description Murray McAllister 2014-02-11 08:39:08 UTC
Jakub Wilk discovered two instances in tag.py where temporary files were created insecurely via mktemp(). A local attacker could use this flaw to perform a symbolic link attack to modify an arbitrary file.

Further details are available in the original report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737062

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-02-11 08:40:43 UTC
Created python-eyed3 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1063672]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1063673]

Comment 2 Niranjan Mallapadi Raghavender 2014-09-09 03:58:30 UTC
Upstream has fixed the Issue: 
https://bitbucket.org/nicfit/eyed3/commits/372bbacb7a70

Comment 3 Niranjan Mallapadi Raghavender 2014-11-19 01:16:19 UTC
Created attachment 958810 [details]
sym link attact patch

Protect against sym link attack in tag.py

Comment 4 Niranjan Mallapadi Raghavender 2014-11-19 02:37:14 UTC
Created attachment 958847 [details]
python-eyed3 spec file

Modified python-eyed3 spec file containing sym link attack patch. This Patch is for fedora 20.

Comment 5 Niranjan Mallapadi Raghavender 2014-11-19 02:38:31 UTC
Created attachment 958849 [details]
Modified sym link attack patch

Modified the patch so that python-eyed3 can be built successfully with this patch.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-12-01 19:04:25 UTC
python-eyed3-0.7.4-4.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-12-01 19:04:31 UTC
python-eyed3-0.7.4-4.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-12-05 01:14:21 UTC
python-eyed3-0.7.4-5.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2014-12-05 01:14:27 UTC
python-eyed3-0.7.4-4.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2014-12-06 10:14:25 UTC
python-eyed3-0.7.4-4.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.